Improvement in ash-sifting shovels



E. B. NEAL.

ASH SIFTING S-HOVEL. No.176,881. Patented May 2,1876.

N-PEI'ERS. FIHOTOJJTIIKIIGHIPMER, WASHINGTON, D. C

To all whom it may concern! a specification:

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UNITED STATES EDWARD B. NEAL, or wlsoassn'r, M INE.

PATENT OFFICE.

f .IMPROVEMENT m ASH-SIFTIVNG SHOVELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,881 dated May '2, 1876; application filed q j February 28,1876. Y i

Be it-knownthat [,EDWARD B. NEAL, of Wiscasset, inthe county of Lincoln and State of Maine, have invented a new and Improved Ash-Sitting Shovel, of which the following is In the accompanying drawing, Figures 1 and 3 represent top views, and Figs. 2 and 4 side views, of myimproved ash-sifting shovel.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre- The object of my invention is to provide an improved shovel for sitting the ashes of furnaces, .cookingand other stoves. without the annoying and penetrating dustthat is raised by the common ashrsifters; and the invention consists of shovel with wire tines and side i guards applied to a fastening-head and handles. a

In the drawing, A represents the wire tines of my ash-sifting shovel, which are made double by bending two tinesol' one length of wire and connecting them .atthe outer end, by which each time is stifi'ened and supported by the other, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4; -or the wire tines may be made of one continuous piece of Wire',which is bent' to form the connectedtinesythe entire'piece being secured between a head, 13, of twopieces with fastenjug-batten, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The

thrown into the feed-door above. thereby saved without annoyance whatever,

as the. draft prevents the ashes from entering batten is of wood or metal, attached to the are attached to the head either separately or bent in one piece with the tines.

/ The shovel is used by taking up the ashes on it, and shaking the same \vhile they are yetunder the grate, the ashes falling-through, while thecoal remains on the tines and is into the'cellar or room.

1 Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- b An ash-sifting shovel having the tines in pairs, connected by a bend at the outer end, the sides returning parallel, and the points titted directly into a wooden head, as shown and described.

EDWARD B. NEAL.

Witnesses:

WILDER F. MoOLnvrooK, S. W. GREENLEAF.

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